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Background
"Background" in a Sentence (20 examples)
The fact that educated Americans in general no longer share understandable background knowledge is a chief cause of their inability to communicate effectively.
Pay will be based on experience and educational background.
Students often study with music playing in the background, and people working around the house will usually turn on the television or radio to keep them company.
Let's get a picture of us with the sea in the background.
That shows his theoretical background.
There is a castle in the background of the picture.
It is very important to consider the cultural background of the family.
Note the function of the background layers of these graphic designs.
With this as background I turn now to an account of the present state of evolutionary biology.
The chameleon can take on the colors of its background.
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background noise
The antivirus program runs on a background thread.
The lawyer had a background in computer science.
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world — camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
There was tons of noise in the background.
The photographer let us pick a background for the portrait.
The antivirus program is running in the background.
low-background
Ha! I see Venus’ transit now;—lo! a new planet there;—and behind all, an infinite starry nebulousness, as if thy being were backgrounded by some spangled vail of mystery.
One aspect of the story that appears interesting is that the alleged rapist and victim are only referred to by name together in the same sentence once. In all the other sentences, one receives more focus, while the other is backgrounded.
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